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November 23, 2007
Friday Links
Williamsburg. Photo by kazzar.
Number of City Homicides Set to Drop to Fewer Than 500 [NY Times]
Insurers Increasingly Shifting Cost Burden to Homeowners [NY Times]
Stocks Plummet on ‘Ugly Week’ for Investors [NY Times]
Food Pantries Can't Keep Up With Demand [NY Daily News]
A Housing Court For Small-Building Tiffs [NY Daily News]
Dying Breed: Brooklyn’s Dutch Farmhouses [Brooklyn Eagle]
AY Arena: Too Close for Comfort? [City Room]
Flea Market to Bring Bargains [Brooklyn Paper]
Willets Pt. Land Grab Flick [Queens Crap]
Coney Boys Get Elfed Out [Kinetic Carnival Via GL]
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Posted by: guest at November 23, 2007 1:19 PM
Yep, good clean fun. Welcome to the meltdown.
Sub-prime crisis takes £5.3bn toll on Japan’s banks
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article2926165.ece
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Someday this war is gonna end...
Posted by: guest at November 23, 2007 1:21 PM
Why do they landmark common, cookie-cutter brownstones everywhere, even when thousands of brownstones are already landmarked, but they don't landmark Dutch farmhouses dating back to the 1700's? How's this for an answer - the income tax being paid in the neighborhoods that contain the remaining dutch houses isn't high enough and there aren't enough yuppies living there.
If self-proclaimed Brooklyn preservationists were truly preservationists and the real thing, they would strive to protect historical buildings in ALL of the borough and all of NYC, not just the ones in their own neighborhoods. It's disgusting how many of these farmhouses have been torn down, and as recently as just a few years ago. Shameful. The Lefferts house was moved into Prospect Park. Other Dutch farmhouses could be moved into NYC parks or into other locations. Get creative.
Posted by: guest at November 23, 2007 4:54 PM
To answer 4:54's question, not a very good one.
Posted by: guest at November 23, 2007 5:30 PM
theres an absolutely ancient farmhouse in the back yard of a junk store on Van Brunt street in red Hook. It looks like its gonna collapse in the next gale. It doesn't seem to be listed in that farmhouse article.
Posted by: guest at November 26, 2007 9:39 AM
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